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Noosrat, This is exactly what I said originally .. "For good diabetic control you should ideally only be eating three main meals per day", so please read and understand what you are being told here. The way you are snacking so much between meals is making it VERY difficult to control your BG...

Hi noosrat, Here is another posting that you did on March 6th 2013 which shows your typical eating pattern: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=38187&p=356686#p356686. So my questions about how you manage your blood glucose control are (using Lantus & Novorapid) ... 1. What are the carbs and Novorapid dosage...

For good diabetic control you should ideally only be eating three main meals per day. If your BG is running at the right level about 4 hours after the last bolus injection, then there is no need to have snacks since they will raise your sugar levels, unless the snack is less than about 10g of...

Hi Patrick, In answer to question 2, a low carb diet is NOT important for a Type 1 diabetic, since as you have already reasoned, it can be covered by quick acting insulin. It is Type 2s who really benefit from going low carb and many on the forum can testify to this. Here are some links to...

Mike, The main thing is to get "better control" of your diabetes, so that you get HbA1c < 7.0% to avoid those chronic complications that could make you even more depressed, and stop making empty promises to your wife. The good starting point is that you recognise that you need to change but it...

I think that makes you 'possibly' the person on this forum who has been Type 1 the longest .. 61 years. Makes my 43 yrs seem quite pathetic :-) Or maybe there is someone else out there who can beat 61 years?

Type 1 diagnosed when I was 27, so that was 43 years ago!. Not aware of any strong symptoms but a medical check for a new job found sugar in the urine, but I had a family history since my sister got it aged 3. Possible trigger was stress of a new job, moving house and getting married all at...

Many thanks for the many feedbacks on my posting, which was not a recommendation for needle reuse, but just my experience in answer to the original question. So I have considered them all carefully, particularly this link http://www.bd.com/resource.aspx?IDX=9660 to the BD article entitled "A...

I use Lantus SoloStar / Humalog Kwickpen pens and only change the needles when I change the pens. I have always done this for the past 30+ years and have never found any problems with infection or pain etc. When you quote that .. "they are designed for single use", I'm not sure where that came...

Hi floflo..x, Please update us with what happened at your first annual review, since many members offered their comments to assure you it would be OK, so it is only polite to let them know how you got on :-) Being a Type 1 for only one year it is vital that you get regular feedback on your...

Hi Samantha, I have been following this thread with interest, since although I've managed my Type 1 well for 43 years with no complications, only in the last 8 months did I find this excellent site and learned all about basal testing by fasting, carb counting, insulin-carb ratios, ratios...

Hi iainten, The level of basal insulin (Levemir or Lantus) required will vary from person to person, and the fact that you are taking 60u does not mean that it is too much. Similarly the level of bolus (Humalog or Novorapid) required will depend on your insulin-carb ratio, and this is also...

Hi iainten, The level of basal insulin (Levemir or Lantus) required will vary from person to person, and the fact that you are taking 60u does not mean that it is too much. Similarly the level of bolus (Humalog or Novorapid) required will depend on your insulin-carb ratio, and this is also...

This link shows the answer to your question about "the chances of developing eye problems" ..... it shows the relationship with the HbA1C level. You should be able to make an informed decision having read this ...... and the answer is .. "do it". http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/easdec/prevent ...

Although going on a DAFNE course is obviously of great benefit, in the meantime there is an excellent ebook from Diabetes UK ("An introduction to carbohydrate counting and insulin dose adjustment" https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/usr/downlo ... educed.pdf) which gives all the basics of carb counting...

Retinopathy will occur if you have high BG readings (typically HbA1c of > 7.5%) over an extended period and the longer the period and higher the BG then the greater the potential damage, which then requires laser treatment once detected on the annual eye screening. In my own experience, I've...

Hi candiloo, You make it sound as if you know exactly what you are doing regarding carb counting and insulin dose adjustments .... but .... your HbA1c reading in your Profile says 84 which is about 10%. That is not good control and will lead you to have complications unless you get it down to <...

Hi Alistair, While you wait for a DAFNE course to be available, this document from Diabetes UK "An introduction to carbohydrate counting and insulin dose adjustment" (https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/usr/downlo ... educed.pdf) explains all you really need to know about carb counting and insulin...

Hi kareeta, Do you do carb counting and do you know what is your Insulin:Carb Ratio for each of the 3 main meals? I suspect that you don't, because if you knew all this data it is not that difficult to .. 1) know the carbs of next meal 2) ratio will tell you how much bolus to inject 3) check BG...

Your recommendations are rather difficult to follow, and appear to assume that each meal has the same carbs as the previous day(s), when in fact all T1s should be working out bolus dose based on the Insuli:Carb RATIO. There are two extremely useful documents that are all you need to understand...